Symptoms:
After upgrading from vCenter Server 5.x to 6.x, you experience these symptoms:
- You see a critical alarm in the vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client for a certificate (SSL) expiry
- VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service Health Alarm will show as Warning
- Restarting VMware VirtualCenter Server after acknowledging the alarm cause the alarm to reappear.
In a VMware vSAN environment, you experience these symptoms:
- Cannot see or manually add VMware vSAN Storage Providers in the VMware vSphere Web Client
- Manually adding Storage Provider for vSAN in the vSphere Web client fails
- In the VMware vSphere Web Client, VMware vSAN Storage Providers that were previously online report an offline or disconnected status
- You see the error:
The Register new storage provider operation failed for the entity with the following error message.
A Problem was encountered while registering the provider
- In the sps.log file on vCenter Server, you see entries similar to:
...] ERROR opId=90c4a3b5-0335-4451-b5a1-569f9360724a com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl - SetContext failed!
com.vmware.vim.sms.fault.VasaServiceException: org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: certificate has expired
Windows vCenter Server log location:
%ProgramData%/VMware/vCenterServer/vmware-sps/sps.log
vCenter Server Appliance log location:
/var/log/vmware/vmware-sps/sps.log
Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.